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Wow this is wonderful! I didn’t know that audio of Chesterton existed! For some reason I always imagined that his voice would have been deeper, more forceful, probably because of his size and the forcefulness of his writing, it just seemed fitting that he would have a loud booming voice. This does make him seem like more of a humble and thoughtful man though, which we are told that he very much was.

Oh my, both Chesterton and Belloc sound so different from what I expected! I guess I expected both of them to have much deeper and firmer voices. But it’s wonderful and endearing to hear them! :) It can be easy to think of our great literary forebears just in terms of words on paper, rather than as real, living, breathing, talking (and singing!) human beings.